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Non-actual motion in language and experience

Blomberg, Johan LU (2017) In Human cognitive processing (HCP) 59. p.205-228
Abstract
Dynamic descriptions of static situations, e.g. The road goes through the forest, have attracted a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and “subjective motion” are often used to describe such sentences. While these terms are taken to be largely synonymous, I argue that they are analytically different, and furthermore point to different possible experiential motivations behind this phenomenon. This leads to the pluralistic and integrative framework of “non-actual motion”. Within this framework, an elicitation study with speakers of Swedish, French, and Thai was designed and conducted. The results suggest that non-actual motion expressions are conventionalized in all three languages. The... (More)
Dynamic descriptions of static situations, e.g. The road goes through the forest, have attracted a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and “subjective motion” are often used to describe such sentences. While these terms are taken to be largely synonymous, I argue that they are analytically different, and furthermore point to different possible experiential motivations behind this phenomenon. This leads to the pluralistic and integrative framework of “non-actual motion”. Within this framework, an elicitation study with speakers of Swedish, French, and Thai was designed and conducted. The results suggest that non-actual motion expressions are conventionalized in all three languages. The language-specific resources for expressing actual motion are used, but with elements suggesting actual motion demoted. (Less)
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fictive motion, semantic typology, motion semantics, subjective motion
host publication
Motion and Space across Languages
series title
Human cognitive processing (HCP)
editor
Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide
volume
59
pages
205 - 228
publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISSN
1387-6724
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9789027246752
9789027265364
DOI
10.1075/hcp.59.09bol
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English
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